Lil' Kim jailed

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Grammy Award-winning American rapper Lil' Kim has been sentenced
to a year and a day in prison and fined $US50,000 ($67,521) for
lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001
shoot-out outside a Manhattan radio station.

While many rappers have served time in prison, Lil' Kim is the
first big-name female to do so.

Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, could have got up
to 20 years - five years each on three counts of perjury and one
count of conspiracy - at her sentencing before US District Judge
Gerard Lynch.